Bug#530586: debian-edu-artwork: upgrade fails to run update-gconf-defaults

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 07:51:25PM +0200, José L. Redrejo Rodríguez wrote:
> El lun, 01-06-2009 a las 10:31 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian escribió:
> > > This is the history from the terminal:
> > > 
> > > # apt-get upgrade
> > > [...]
> > > (Reading database ... 280572 files and directories currently installed.)
> > > Preparing to replace debian-edu-artwork 0.0.28 (using .../debian-edu-artwork_0.0.30-2_all.deb) ...
> > > Unpacking replacement debian-edu-artwork ...
> > > /tmp/gconf-cQtqkW/temp.entries:4: parser error : error parsing attribute name
> > > <key><list</key>
> > >           ^
> > 
> > gconf2 needs to be installed for update-gconf-defaults from postinst/postrm to
> > get triggered.
> > 
> 
> 
> Not, debhelper takes care of this: if it is not installed it doesn't do
> that in the postinst:
> 
> # Automatically added by dh_gconf
> if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && which update-gconf-defaults >/dev/null
> 2>&1; then
>         update-gconf-defaults
> fi
> 
> 
> So, if gconf2 is not installed, the bug should not raise.
> 
> The problem must be in some other place.

the bug is triggered when update-gconf-defaults *is* run, which is why i
re-assigned the bug to gconf2, rather than leaving it as a bug of
debian-edu-artwork.

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  vagrant